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Tuesday, June 19th, 2012

THE LOCUST MOLECULAR GENETICS FROM THE GOLD STANDARD LABS OUT JULY 31 VIA ANTI- RECORDS

The Locust July 31st Anti-Records release Molecular Genetics From the Gold Standard Labs features 44 tracks of hard-to-find and out-of-print material from the early years of the legendary band. The San Diego group has been blowing minds since 1994 with their unique mix of grindcore speed and aggression, mathcore complexity, and new wave weirdness.

The band's membership has proved a veritable "Who's Who" of punk royalty. Joseph Karam also plays with One Day As A Lion while Justin Pearson was in Some Girls, All Leather and played on the recent Retox album with Gabe Serbian. Past participants have included Tristeza/Album Leaf/GoGoGo Airheart/Crimson Curse's Jimmy LaValle, to Tarantula Hawk's Dave Warshaw and Dylan Scharf, and Cattle Decapitation's David Astor. In the process they have created a singular body of work, and an important piece of that appears on Molecular Genetics From the Gold Standard Labs, collecting for the first time all of the band's pre-Epitaph recordings.

"You hear it in every note they play: The Locust simply love what they do. With Plague Soundscapes, The Locust shot for broken bones and wound up epitomizing "breakneck." Have you been injured in an accident?" - Pitchfork.com

Molecular Genetics From the Gold Standard Labs Track Listing1. How to Become a Virgin2. Who Wants a Dose of the Clap?3. Twenty-Three Lubed-Up Schizophrenics With Delusions of Grandeur4. Priest With the Sexually Transmitted Diseases Get Out of My Bed5. The Half-Eaten Sausage Would Like to See You in His Office6. Perils of Believing in Round Squares7. Flash's Theme8. Gluing Carpet to Your Genitals Does Not Make You a Cantaloupe9. Turning Your Merchandise Into a Ripped Wall of Mini-Abs10. Bring Your 6.5 Italian11. Alas, Here Come the Hypochondriacs to Wait With You in the Lobby12. Siphoning Projectiles During Selective Amnesia13. Flight of the Wounded Locust14. Get Off the Cross, the Wood Is Needed15. Wet Nurse Syndrome Hand-Me-Down Display Case16. This Is Radio Surgery17. Spitting in the Faces of Fools as a Source of Nutrition 18. Sever the Toes19. Well I'll Be a Monkey's Uncle20. Moth-Eaten Deer Head21. Brand New Set of Teeth22. How to Build a Pessimistic Lie Detector23. Nice Tranquil Thumb in Mouth24. Dog Without a Collar (Run over Red Rover)25. Normal Run of the Muck (Compensation for Conversation)26. Stucco Obelisks Labeled as Trees27. Straight from the Horse's Mouth28. An Extra Piece of Dead Meat29. Twenty-Three Full-Time Cowboys30. Backbones of Jack Asses31. Fixed Companionship, Ghost Town Irrationality32. Skin Graft at Seventy-Five Miles Per Hour33. High-Maintenance Libido, Bring the Whole Family34. Halfway to a Worthless Ideal Arrangement (An Interlude to a Discontinued Sarcastic Harmony... Yea Whatever)35. Kill Roger Hedgecock36. Hairspray Suppository37. Cattle Mutilation38. Prepare to Qualify39. Pain Reliever40. Off by a Long Shot41. #9942. Head Hits Concrete43. Ass Gravity44. Keep Off the Tracks